Buffy! BUFFY BUFFY BUFFY!
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annathepiperWell, that was fun.
Very fun to see the old high school back again, and rather gigglesome to see Buffy reacting to the new principal. And Buffy getting a reason to actually hang out at the school on camera. ;)
Thumbs up on Xander being actually boss-like and construction-y ("Contracty goodness!"), and helping out with the elimination of the nastybad spirits.
Less Willow angst than I was expecting, though this is actually a bit of a good thing. She got plenty of angst at the tail end of last season, and I can buy her spending some healing time in England with Giles. Besides, excuse to have Giles on camera s'more. Yay!
Of course, though, what I was waiting for was SPIKE!
And the poor boy appears to have flipped now that he has a soul back in him. Not surprised by this; I was suspecting some level of flippage was going to happen. I didn't see coming him trying to cut the soul out, but I could totally buy that.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spazzkat does not this new pathetic incarnation of Spike -- but me, I am not surprised they're taking this angle if nothing else because it's going to delay Buffy finding out he has a soul if he's too bonkers to tell her. Which makes complete and total sense.
Paul also doesn't like Spike's new hair... but again, I'm not surprised, if it's growing back in his original color. Though this also suggests that vamps actually do grow new hair. ;) Or else that Spike had been regularly dying it or something.
The sequence of Spike hallucinations at the end was pretty keen and I am wondering, given the Master's dialogue about going back to the beginning, whether the suspicion I had that Spike was going to revert to his William self has any basis in what's to come.
The one thing I don't get is, what the fuck was the business in Istanbul at the beginning, and the Spike-like briefly glimpseable figure there?
Very fun to see the old high school back again, and rather gigglesome to see Buffy reacting to the new principal. And Buffy getting a reason to actually hang out at the school on camera. ;)
Thumbs up on Xander being actually boss-like and construction-y ("Contracty goodness!"), and helping out with the elimination of the nastybad spirits.
Less Willow angst than I was expecting, though this is actually a bit of a good thing. She got plenty of angst at the tail end of last season, and I can buy her spending some healing time in England with Giles. Besides, excuse to have Giles on camera s'more. Yay!
Of course, though, what I was waiting for was SPIKE!
And the poor boy appears to have flipped now that he has a soul back in him. Not surprised by this; I was suspecting some level of flippage was going to happen. I didn't see coming him trying to cut the soul out, but I could totally buy that.
spazzkat does not this new pathetic incarnation of Spike -- but me, I am not surprised they're taking this angle if nothing else because it's going to delay Buffy finding out he has a soul if he's too bonkers to tell her. Which makes complete and total sense.Paul also doesn't like Spike's new hair... but again, I'm not surprised, if it's growing back in his original color. Though this also suggests that vamps actually do grow new hair. ;) Or else that Spike had been regularly dying it or something.
The sequence of Spike hallucinations at the end was pretty keen and I am wondering, given the Master's dialogue about going back to the beginning, whether the suspicion I had that Spike was going to revert to his William self has any basis in what's to come.
The one thing I don't get is, what the fuck was the business in Istanbul at the beginning, and the Spike-like briefly glimpseable figure there?
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Date: 2002-09-24 11:49 pm (UTC)